テトスへの手紙 1
1 神の僕にしてイエズス、キリストの使徒たるパウロ、共通の信仰によりて我實子たるチトに[書簡を贈る]。我が使徒たるは、神に選まれたる人々の信仰に應じ、又人を敬虔に導きて、
Paul a servant of God an apostle now of Jesus Christ according to [the] faith of [the] elect of God and knowledge of [the] truth which [is] according to godliness
in [the] hope of life eternal, which promised who cannot lie God before time eternal. (aiōnios g166)
3 時至りて御言を顕すに宣教を以てし給ひ、其宣教は我救主にて在す神の命によりて我に託せられたるなり。
He revealed now [in] seasons [His] own in the word of Him in [the] proclamation with which was entrusted I myself according to [the] commandment of the Savior of us God;
4 願はくは父にて在す神及び我救主キリスト、イエズスより恩寵と平安とを賜はらんことを。
To Titus [my] true child according to [our] common faith: Grace (and *N(K)O*) peace from God [the] Father and (Lord *K*) Christ Jesus the Savior of us.
5 第一編 善き聖職者の選択に関する教訓 我が汝をクレタ[島]に置きしは、尚缺けたる所を整へ、且我が汝に命ぜし如く町々に長老を立てしめん為なり、
of this Because (I left *N(k)(o)*) you in Crete, so that the [things] lacking you may set in order and may appoint in every town elders as I myself you directed;
6 即ち咎むべき所なく、一婦の夫にして、若子等あらば是も信徒にして、放蕩を以て訴へらるる事なく、順はざる事なき子等を有てる人たるべし。
if anyone is blameless, of one wife [the] husband, children having believing, not under accusation of debauchery or insubordinate.
7 蓋監督は、神の家宰として咎むべき所なき人たるべし。即ち自慢せず、短氣ならず、酒を嗜まず、人を打たず、耻づべき利を求めず、
It behooves for the overseer blameless to be as God’s steward, not self-willed, not quick tempered, not given to wine, not a striker, not greedy of base gain,
8 旅人を接待し、善を好み、怜悧にして義人たり、信心家にして節制家たり、
but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, [and] disciplined,
9 教によれる眞の談を固く執り、健全なる教によりて人を勧むることを得、反對を稱ふる人に答弁をするを得る人たるべし。
holding according to the teaching of [the] faithful word, that able he may be both to encourage with teaching sound and those contradicting [it] to convict.
10 蓋從はずして贅弁を弄し、以て人を惑はす者、殊に割禮の人々の中に多し。
There are for many also insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers especially those of (the *no*) circumcision
11 彼等は耻づべき利の為に、教ふべからざる事を教へ、全家をも覆すが故に、彼等をして閉口せしむるを要す。
whom it is necessary to silence; who whole households overthrow teaching things that [they] not ought of shameful gain because.
12 彼等の中なる一人の預言者は言へり、「クレタ人は何時も虚言を吐きて、惡き獣、懶惰の腹なり」と。
Said one of them own of them a prophet; Cretans [are] always liars, evil beasts, gluttons lazy.
13 この證言は實なり、此故に汝、彼等をして信仰に健全ならしめん為に、鋭く之を譴責し、
testimony this is true; for which cause do rebuke them severely, so that they may be sound in the faith,
14 ユデア教の寓言と、身を眞理に反くる人々の戒とに憑る事なからしめよ。
not giving heed to Jewish myths and to [the] commandments of men turning away from the truth.
15 潔き人々には、物皆潔けれども、穢れたる人、不信の人には潔き物なく、其理性と良心と共に穢れたり。
All things [are] (indeed *k*) pure to the pure; to those however defiled and unbelieving no [thing] [is] pure, Instead have been defiled of them both mind and conscience.
16 彼等は自ら神を識り奉れりと宣言すれども、行に於ては之を棄てて實に憎むべきもの、反抗するもの、一切の善業に就きての廃物なり。
God they profess to know, however by [their] works they deny [Him] detestable being and disobedient and for any work good unfit.
